The SAMOTHRACE ecosystem has identified Cultural Heritage as one of its pillars with the mission to “create a diffuse system that could give rise to an innovative design, manufacturing, tuning and validation center for breakthrough materials and devices dedicated to Cultural Heritage applications”.

The variety of the Sicilian heritage patrimony poses a series of issues whose solutions could enhance its correct fruition. The aim of the pillar is to develop procedures, through measurement methodologies and analysis, that could guarantee high-level precision and eventually be at the base of authenticity certificates and intervention and investigation protocols.

Within the aim of the pillar, the champion activities will be the basis to develop the “electronic excavation notebook”, to design devices and protocols for 3D reconstruction, digitalization, virtual and augmented reality to, ideally, construct a customized-museum in which the end-user could find any information depending on its need and curiosity. Special devices able to guarantee the fruition even to people with special needs will be realized.

The initial activities of the pillar were focused on establishing the state of the art, designing preliminary experiments, and on the scouting of archeological sites, museums, historical buildings, and art galleries. Collaborations with several cultural heritage institution have been established.